Instructed Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind. — Ben Folds

Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel, which never quite matched the others. Intellectual debate can be very hard on furniture. — Nancy Kress

You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms. — Sara Maitland

Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse. — Caitlin Moran

The day you start institutionalizing "Walk the talk" life shall show the dream to reality path. — V.V. Rao

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who. — Kurt Vonnegut

(Matt & Julian)

"Are you always like this?" Matt asked.

"It's the heat. Brings out my charm. — Jaime Reese

I seem to remember that Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency. - Nathan — Catherine Ryan Hyde

The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood. — Paul Halmos

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling. — Eric Hoffer

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy. — William Robertson Nicoll

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. — Matthew Prior

We were random stars, and he made us a constellation. — Gail Giles

In cheap years, it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear ones more industrious than ordinary. A plentiful subsistence, therefore, it has been concluded, relaxes, and a scanty one quickens their industry. That a little more plenty than ordinary may render some workmen idle, cannot well be doubted; but that it should have this effect upon the greater part, or that men in general should work better when they are ill fed than when they are well fed, when they are disheartened than when they are in good spirits, when they are frequently sick than when they are generally in good health, seems not very probable. Years of dearth, it is to be observed, are generally among the common people years of sickness and mortality, which cannot fail to diminish the produce of their industry. — Adam Smith

Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12. — Anwar Robinson